By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Work.
Work is done upon an object when a force displaces it through a distance—
—and nowadays, when everything works as it should, gigantic amounts of work continue to be done even when the workers take, for a few moments at least, a break from work—
From a Hidden Harbor Tour through New York Harbor in September 2013. Story and more photos are here.
Posted in Photography, Science and Technology
Tagged Container Ship, New York Harbor, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Ships, Travel, Tugboat, Weekly Photo Challenge, Work
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Treasure.
On an extended paddling trip, quite ordinary things become treasures!
From our Florida paddle in April 2013, our kayak-camping trip to the Hudson River Islands State Park in October 2013, and our Long Island circumnavigation in June-July 2012, respectively.
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Kayak Expeditions, Kayaking, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Treasure, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge on this Valentine’s Day is, very appropriately, Romance.
The romance of watching the sunset together…
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Posted in Kayaking, Life, Photography
Tagged Kayaking, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Romance, Sunset, Travel, Valentine's Day, Weekly Photo Challenge
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By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Yellow.
New York City’s yellow taxis are world-famous.
And ubiquitous! We can’t get away from them even when we are paddling around the harbor.
We’ve always wondered what it would be like to have one pass right over you. It could easily happen, in the dense rush-hour traffic. After all, they have schedules to keep. And we do hear them on the radio referring to us as “speed bumps”…
Here one of our friends is trying to get a feel for it ahead of time ;-)
(The first “Yellow” post was here.)
Posted in Kayaking, New York City, Photography
Tagged Ferries, Kayaking, New York Harbor, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Travel, Water Taxi, Weekly Photo Challenge, Yellow
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Yellow.
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Channeling Georgia O’Keeffe…
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Flower, Lilies, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge, Yellow
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Selfie.
Me, myself, and I… and I… and I…
At the Hotel del Coronado, Coronado, CA. More photos are here.
Posted in Photography
Tagged Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Reflections, Selfie, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge from “The Daily Post” is Object, and Ailsa’s over at “Where’s my backpack?” is Dry.
So, here are a few Dry Objects…
More photos taken (in NYC’s Central Park) on these days are here and here.
Another interpretation of “Object” was here, and another of “Dry” here.
Posted in Nature, Photography
Tagged Dry, Dry Weed, Object, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Dry.
As kayakers, we like Wet. We don’t like Dry at all!
“I don’t believe this!! There was water all the way up to these rocks yesterday!?”
Denial
Anger
Depression
Acceptance
(A day on Cape Cod Bay in 2011.)
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Cape Cod, Cape Cod Bay, Dry, Low Tide, Massachusetts Sea Kayaking, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Sea Kayaking, Tide, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Object.
When we land somewhere on our kayaking expeditions, for lunch or to camp for the night, we aim to leave nothing behind and to take nothing with us when we leave again. But sometimes we find there a little object that just begs to be taken home as a souvenir…
Here is one such, in situ
It’s coming home with us
to join others, from other journeys
(This little green fish is a souvenir of our stay on Stockport Middle Ground during our 2011 trip down the Hudson from Albany to New York City.)
Posted in Kayaking, Photography
Tagged Kayaking, Object, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2014, Souvenirs, Weekly Photo Challenge
... kayaked the waters around New York for more than 15 years in his red Feathercraft folding kayak. He was originally from (the former) Czechoslovakia and lived in the U.K. and California before settling down in New York. He was a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He died in 2016.
... is a kayaker and technology researcher at Nemertes Research. She's an erstwhile engineer, particle physicist, and science fiction writer. She was born in California and has lived in Italy, Norway, Hawaii, and a few other places. She currently resides in New York City.
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